Meet TONY BEDARD one of the architects of DC’s NEW 52 relaunch on Saturday October 1, 2011 at Florida Super Comics, Games, Anime + More! He’s the writer of the new relaunches of GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS and BLUE BEETLE. Blue Beetle #1 comes out on Wed. September 21st and Green Lantern: New Guardians #1 comes out on Wed. September 28th. Tony will be signing comics for FREE at the event. Most recently Tony has been writing Green Lantern Corps, DC Universe Online Legends and R.E.B.E.L.S. Tony will be at the store from 12:00pm – 6:00pm to meet with fans.The Mac’n Food Truckwill also be onsite selling lunch from 11am – 6pm.In addition to Tony’s appearance, we will have several other guest artists in attendance including: Deleon Walters (Giant Warrior Robot Maintenance Crew), Manny Aguilera, Creature Entertainment & more to be announced!

In the store:
20% OFF ALL GREEN LANTERN & BLUE BEETLE merchandise in the store (excluding the new #1’s). Comics, Trade Paperbacks, Graphic Novels, Toys, T-Shirts, Statues, etc… Anything with Green Lantern and Blue Beetle will be on sale!
PLUS:
20% OFF ALL BACK ISSUES
15% OFF ALL TRADE PAPERBACKS, HARD COVERS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
15% OFF ALL TOYS & STATUES
15% OFF ALL T-SHIRTS

& More to be announced!

A brief bio of Tony Bedard:
Tony began at Valiant Comics as the editor and writer of several titles including Rai, Psi-Lords, and Magnus RobotFighter. His early work is often credited by his full name – Anthony Bedard. After Valiant, Tony moved to freelance work for Broadway, Malibu and Crusade Comics, where he wrote the first two issues of Shi: The Series.

Tony then moved to an editorial position at DC Comics. Here he worked on a number of projects, the most notable being the Hourman monthly. He eventually moved into the Vertigo imprint where he edited several monthly titles, including Vertigo’s longest running title Hellblazer.

In 2001 Bedard signed an exclusive contract with CrossGen Comics. Bedard provided editorial knowledge to the company and took over writing CrossGen’s launch title Mystic. He went on to co-create Negation with Mark Waid and wrote a number of series for Crossgen. Bedard was writing the mini-series Negation War (which featured characters from the Negation series and was meant to wrap up important plot threads in Negation and the other CrossGen titles) when CrossGen filed for bankruptcy. As a result, only two issues of the series were ever published, and Bedard became the last writer of the Sigilverse.

After CrossGen, Bedard began work on the Marvel Comics series Exiles, which he wrote for 44 issues and an annual. Bedard also scripted Uncanny X-Men #472-474. Apart from Exiles he had a number of side projects, including the mini-series Spider-Man: Breakout and the final 6 issues of the Rogue monthly comic book.

Tony returned to DC Comics and worked on portions of the weekly series Countdown, a six issue arc on Supergirland the Legion of Super-Heroes and a four issue Black Canary mini-series.Bedard then went on to write fill-in arcs on both Supergirl and Birds of Prey as well as contributing to The Outsiders fifth week event in August. He was the regular writer for Birds of Prey from #118 until the series end with #127. In 2009 he launched R.E.B.E.L.S with artist Andy Clarke and in 2010 Bedard became the ongoing writer for Green Lantern Corps starting with issue 48, coinciding with the beginning of the “Brightest Day” crossover event and in 2011 he launched the bi-weekly DC Universe Online Legends series co-written with Marv Wolfman.